Other SharePoint updates set to roll out this quarter include the ability to copy from OneDrive on the Web to SharePoint; a new SharePoint home in Office 365; and “intelligent discovery” of documents from both SharePoint and OneDrive. In an attempt to attract new users, the company is offering free migration to its cloud software from competitors like Box and Google Drive. We’re also introducing a new page authoring and publishing experience that allows you to create lovely, feature-rich pages that are responsive, mobile and easy to share with your team and the organization. There are plenty of more updates in the pipeline for 2016, including integration between Office 365 Groups and SharePoint sites and connections between SharePoint and Microsoft’s new PowerApps and Flow citizen development tools.
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Those document suggestions are similar to what Microsoft has been doing with its Delve product, which also uses the Microsoft Graph to show users what other people in their organization are working on. It’s a feature that “has a lot of potential”, McKinnon said. The hybrid aspect refers to capabilities powered by the use of Office 365 cloud-based services and SharePoint server farms on premises.
“We’ve played a bit of catch up with the niche file-sharing solutions”, said Jeff Teper, a Microsoft vice president who founded the SharePoint business and was asked by Chief Executive Officer Satya Nadella to return last summer to lead it. “This week we’re going to leapfrog them”. Microsoft isn’t now making the offer to Dropbox switchers. OOS is the successor to Office Web Apps Server 2013, and it can scale for your enterprise whether you have 100 employees or 100,000, Microsoft says. Numerous features in this release of SharePoint Server are already available in SharePoint Online.
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Be on the lookout for this app to be released, although I’ll be curious to see if they bundle it with Windows 10 like they have done with the Skype UWP app. The Office graph features in SharePoint will be added this quarter, while those features get rolled into the OneDrive Android app this quarter. Versions for Windows and Android phones are expected to be release sometime later in the year, Microsoft said. That can boost growth in the business – once touted as Microsoft’s fastest growing program ever when it topped $800 million (roughly Rs. 5,328 crores) in sales in 2007.
